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Thoughts, opinions and ideas from members and friends of the G7 and G20 Research Groups.

Sophie Barnett

EU Leaders in Malta: Addressing Migration Ahead of Taormina, February 1, 2017

Annie Beaulieu

COP21, SDGs and Tourism — Just for Policy Makers or for Everyone?, December 8, 2015

Azerbaijan: Transitioning from a Black Gold Economy to a Sustainable Tourism and Innovation Economy, March 16, 2016

A Focus on Sustainable Growth But No Mention of Tourism's Potential, July 13, 2017

The Carbon Impact of Travelling for World Peace, August 25, 2019

Liam Bekirsky

Can France Lead the G7 in Bridging the Digital Divide?, March 26, 2019

La France peut-elle mener le G7 à combler la fracture numérique ?, 26 mars 2019

France's G7 Presidency: From Digital to Education Strategy, May 16, 2019

La présidence française du G7 : De la stratégie numérique à la stratégie pour l'éducation, 16 mai 2019

Francesco Bergoglio Errico

Migration toward Europe and Foreign Terrorist Fighters, with Chiara Oldani, July 23, 2018

Hannah Bettsworth

Can France Bring a Feminist Foreign Policy to the G7?, February 23, 2019, updated March 13, 2019

Katrina Bland

From Taormina to Charlevoix, September 9, 2017

Putting Gender Equality on the Table, October 9, 2017

How Indigenous Peoples and G7 Leaders Can Best Work Together in 2018, December 26, 2017

Canada's Sixth G7 Summit: Charlevoix, January 29, 2018

Aligning Mental Health with Canada's G7 Charlevoix Priorities, June 8, 2018

Paulo Botta

The Potential Impact of the G20 on Argentina's Foreign Policy, February 28, 2018

Caroline Bracht

Climate Change, Employment and COP21, December 4, 2015

Improving Inclusion, Innovation and Implementation: The G7 Education Ministers at Kurashiki, May 17, 2016

Caitlin Byrne

China: Competent Yet Constrained on G20 Public Diplomacy, April 1, 2016

Sarah Burton

G7 Foreign Ministers and Conflict Prevention, April 16, 2016

Do Ambitious G7 Commitments Secure Less Compliance?, June 3, 2016

Jaquelin Coulson

Expectations for the G7-Africa Partnership under France's Presidency, July 10, 2019

Carey Davis

Implications of American Apostasy, June 10, 2018

Martin Dionne

How Can the G20 Use AI to Help Create Sustainable Communities in an Inter-Connected World? with Sarah Mariani

Sonja Dobson

The Impact of the 2018 G7 Charlevoix Summit Outreach Sessions on Development in Africa, March 17, 2019

Alecsandra Dragus

G7 ICT Ministers Make Advances in Kagawa, May 1, 2016

Marie Dubois

Gender and France's 2019 G7, October 22, 2018

Le genre sur l'agenda du G7 de la France en 2019, 22 octobre 2018

Katyrina Dzhaha

Is the G20 Ready for the Next Global Financial Crisis?, February 4, 2016

Will the G20 Finance Ministerial in Shanghai Lead Global Financial Regulation in the Right Direction?, February 19, 2016

Hélène Emorine

G20 Hamburg Summit: A Strong Success for Counter-Terrorism, with Denisse Rudich, July 13, 2017

Cautious Success: G7 Foreign Ministers Pressure U.S. to Stay in Iran Deal, April 24, 2018

Missing in Action at the Halifax G7 Ministerial: France's Nicolas Hulot, September 18, 2018

Porté disparu à la réunion ministérielle du G7 à Halifax: Nicolas Hulot de la France, 18 septembre 2018

Alexandre T. Gingras

A Waltz on the Red Line: Will the G20 Call the Tune Again?, April 10, 2017

Fire, Fury and the G20, September 21, 2017

The Roles of G7 and G20 Foreign Ministers, June 2, 2018

Matthew Goodman

G7 Leaders Need to Talk, May 16, 2016

Jenilee Guebert

COP21 — A Legal or Political Deal?, December 2, 2015
The Climate Change-Health Nexus at COP21: Moving Beyond the Environment, December 8, 2015

Courtney Hallink

Senegal's Macky Sall at the G20 Hangzhou Summit: Included Guest or Sidelined Observer? September 4, 2016

Opening Up a Dialogue between the G20 and Africa, January 31, 2017

Angela Min Yi Hou

The G7 and the BRICS: Companions Not Competitors, June 25, 2018

Looking Forward to the 2019 Biarritz Summit, with Julia Tops, July 3, 2018

First-Quarter Compliance with G7 Charlevoix's Key Commitments, September 18, 2018

Fighting the Amazon Fires: Biodiversity at the G7 Biarritz Summit, with Sofia Lopez, August 23, 2019

What Might Come from the G7 Biarritz Summit, August 25, 2019

Aurora Hudson

Complying with Global Summit Climate Change Commitments: G7, G20 and UN Performance, December 1, 2015

Alev Kayagil

The Conversation on Climate-Induced Migration, December 15, 2015

Tasnia Khan

Action Items Toward Sustainable Finance, September 20, 2019

Observations on NATO's 2019 London Summit, with Janakan Muthukumar, December 18, 2019

John Kirton

Shanghai's Solid, Slow Start to China's G20 Year, February 28, 2016

From Agenda Setting to Achievement at the G7's Ise-Shima Summit, April 1, 2016

G7 Foreign Policy from Hiroshima to Ise-Shima and Beyond, April 10, 2016

G7 Agriculture Ministers' Advances at Niigata, April 25, 2016

Saving Lives at the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, May 26, 2016

The G7's Poor Performance on Climate Change Control, May 27, 2016

The South China Sea Dispute from Japan's G7 to China's G20 Summit, July 7, 2016

A Disappointing Response to Global Dangers from G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at Chengdu, July 24, 2016

President Xi Jinping's Priorities for the G20's Hangzhou Summit, August 30, 2016

The Hangzhou Summit's First Small Step to Control Climate Change, August 31, 2016

Will the G20 Keep Its Promises to Reform the International Financial Institutions? (with Brittaney Warren), October 6, 2016

President Trump Meets the G7 and the G20, November 11, 2016

The G7's Merkel and Trudeau React to Trump, November 12, 2016

China's G20 Leadership with Trump, Beijing, November 14, 2016

From Hangzhou to Fabo: Implementing Innovation after China's G20 Summit, Beijing, November 15, 2016

Innovation for Environmental Protection from Hangzhou to Hefei, Hefei, China, November 17, 2016

Could China Lead the G20 in Combating Non-communicable Diseases?, Bantang, China, November 18, 2016

China's Global Leadership at APEC and Anhui, November 23, 2016

The Hamburg Summit's Challenge of Shaping an Interconnected World in a Way that Works for Migrants and Refugees, with Madeline Koch, December 1, 2016

Xi Jinping's Global Leadership at Davos 2017, January 8, 2017

Theresa May and Donald Trump Tackle Terrorism at Taormina, May 23, 2017

G20 Climate Change Control without the White House, June 2, 2017

Argentina's Agenda for G20 2018, June 4, 2017

France's G7 Priorities for 2018/19, March 21, 2018

Connecting Security and Climate Change at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting: Making the Missing Link from Lucca 2017 at Toronto 2018, April 22, 2018

Shocked into Strong Success: Prospects for the 2018 G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, April 22, 2018

Committed to Resilience: G7 Foreign Ministers' Commitments on Counter-Terrorism in 2017, with Mary Zelenova, April 23, 2018

Protecting Citizen Safety in a Committed and Comprehensive Way: Challenges for the G7 Foreign and Security Ministers' in 2018, with Brittaney Warren, April 24, 2018

Trump's Trade Protectionism, G7's Charlevoix Success, June 2, 2018

Russia's Return to the G7/G8? June 8, 2018

U.S. Goals Spur Charlevoix Summit Success, June 7, 2018

The Charlevoix Summit's Success on Day One, June 8, 2018

A Dual Track to Start Day Two at Charlevoix, June 9, 2018

A Summit of Significant Success at G7 Charlevoix 2018, June 9, 2018

Promising Prospects for the Halifax G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, September 1, 2018

Strengthening Sources of Success for the Halifax G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, September 10, 2018

Momentum for Major Advances at the Halifax G7 Environment Ministerial Meeting, September 16, 2018

A Strong Start to the G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, September 19, 2018

Momentum Builds at the G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, September 19, 2018

A Meeting of Meaningful Momentum: The G7 Environment Ministers at Halifax, September 19, 2018

The G7 Halifax Ministerial Meeting Raises a Record Amount of Funding, September 20, 2018

The G20 Osaka Summit's Prospective Trade Success, May 16, 2019

Canada's Election Impact on the U.S. G7 Summit in 2010, November 11, 2019

Madeline Koch

The Hamburg Summit's Challenge of Shaping an Interconnected World in a Way that Works for Migrants and Refugees, with John Kirton, December 1, 2016

Ella Kokotsis

G7 and G20 Contributions to Mitigating Climate Change — Then and Now, December 1, 2015

Overcoming Critical Challenges: Legal Force, CDR, Loss-Damages, Finance and MRVs, December 4, 2015

How Trump and Taormina Could Have Advanced U.S. Energy Security, June 8, 2017

Trump's Dramatic Failure in Advancing Climate Change and U.S. Energy Security, August 22, 2017

Kathryn Kotris

Promising Policies for Persistent Problems in Trade<, July 17, 2016

A History of Charlevoix, September 26, 2017

Julia Kulik

Helping the Climate and Women Together: What Can Paris Do?, December 3, 2015

Will the Ise-Shima Summit Generate Growth Through Global Governance?, May 25, 2016

G7 Leaders' Reactions to the U.S. Election: Looking Ahead to a Summit with President Trump, November 17, 2016

Advancing Gender Equality at the G7 Biarritz Summit: Good Steps Taken, Big Opportunities Missed, November 12, 2019

Christine Lagarde

How to Help, Not Hinder Global Growth, June 5, 2019; published with permission

Andrew F. Liu

Mobilizing a Reformed International Monetary Fund, September 3, 2016

Sofia Lopez

Fighting the Amazon Fires: Biodiversity at the G7 Biarritz Summit, with Angela Min Yi Hou, August 23, 2019

Jonathan Luckhurst

Prospects and Prescriptions for the G20's Shanghai Finance Meeting, February 19, 2016

No G20 Policy Shift, Despite Shanghai's Focus on Sustainable Growth, February 29, 2016

November Asia-Pacific Summits Influenced by Global Authority Shifts, November 6, 2017

Sarah Mariani

How Can the G20 Use AI to Help Create Sustainable Communities in an Inter-Connected World? with Martin Dionne, September 21, 2017

The Role of Youth at the 2018 Charlevoix Summit, April 12, 2019

Maria Marchyshyn

The Trans-Pacific Partnership: From the G7 in Japan to Canada and the United States, July 17, 2016

Hamburg 2017: Will Germany Complete the Missing Pieces from Hangzhou?, October 16, 2016

Mobilizing CETA's Opportunities for Canadian Business, October 25, 2017

Matthew McIntosh

The Hangzhou Summit and the Case of Youth Unemployment, October 6, 2016

Climate Change at Taormina, May 25, 2017

From COP21 in Paris to the G20 in Hamburg to COP23 in Bonn, August 1, 2017

Tyler McMurdo

France's Climate Change Leadership in the European Union and the World: What This Means for Biarritz, February 3, 2019

Duja Muhanna

G7 Environmental Ministers Advance Leaders' Oceans Governance, September 20, 2018

Tackling Health at the Buenos Aires Summit and Beyond, December 6, 2018

Biodiversity and the Road to the G7, April 25, 2019

Will the G7 Health Ministerial Meeting Spur the G7 Biarritz Summit to a Healthy Success?, May 16, 2019

Janakan Muthukumar

Observations on NATO's 2019 London Summit, with Tasnia Khan, December 18, 2019

Tristen Naylor

On Linking Terrorism and Climate Change, December 10, 2015

The G20 and 21st-Century Communication, August 1, 2016

China's G20 Summit: How Not to Do Message Control, September 18, 2016

High Turnover at the Summit Table: Does It Matter?, May 23, 2017

On the Margins: Meetings to Watch at the Hamburg G20, July 4, 2017

The New Role of the G20: Safeguarding Global Governance from a Revisionist America, July 6, 2017

The G7 Summit Will Show What Sort of Brexit Britain Faces, August 22, 2019

Hanh Nguyen

Integrating a Gender-Responsive Approach in Climate Change Decision Making, July 22, 2016

Climate Finance under New U.S. Presidency, November 23, 2016

Liz Noh

Japan's Approach to the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, March 8, 2016

Civil Society Gathers at the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, May 25, 2016

Chiara Oldani

Italy, China and Sardinia, November 24, 2016

A Tough Start to Italy's Year as G7 Host, December 5, 2016

The First Days of Italy's New Prime Minister, December 12, 2016

Italy's New-Old Government, December 21, 2016

The Pillars of the Italian G7 Presidency, February 11, 2017

Governing Global Derivatives: G7/G20 Progress, Problem, Possibilities, March 20, 2017

From Finance in Bari to the Summit in Taormina, May 23, 2017

Migration toward Europe and Foreign Terrorist Fighters, with Francesco Bergoglio Errico, July 23, 2018

Daniel C. Park

Sluggish Growth Cannot Count: Back to the Drawing Board for World Leaders? September 3, 2016

North Korea: From Vancouver to Charlevoix, February 2, 2018

Giorgia Ponti

Renzi and the 2017 G7, May 28, 2016

Denisse Rudich

EU Leaders Welcome the Chinese Presidency of the G20 Summit (with Marissa Young), September 8, 2016

From Hangzhou to Hamburg: Ensuring a Smooth Transition, October 4, 2016

Round-Up of Financial Crime, Corruption and Terrorism Initiatives at the G20 Osaka Summit, August 24, 2019

Applying a Financial Crime Lens to Advance G7 Gender Initiatives, September 21, 2019

Sarah Richardson

The BRICS Summit and Brexit: Trade and Investment Prospects, October 18, 2016

How Brexit's Article 50 Will Affect G7 and G20 Summitry in 2017, April 3, 2017

G20 Hamburg Summit: A Strong Success for Counter-Terrorism, with Hélène Emorine, July 13, 2017

Tristram Sainsbury

China's G20 Moment Approaches, September 2, 2016

Amandine Scherrer

What France's Election Might Mean for the G7 and G20 Summits, May 3, 2017

Sabrina Shaw

From Hamburg to Buenos Aires: Education, Innovation and the Future of Work, September 8, 2017 (updated September 24, 2017)

Championing Latin America in the G20, November 3, 2017

Chris Sims

Corruption and the G20: An Insufficient Success, January 9, 2019

Janel Smith

Building Resilient Societies to Counter Global Terrorism, March 31, 2016

Dennis Snower

An Evaluation of the G20 Hamburg Summit, July 10, 2017

Bogdan Stovba

Prospects for the G7 Biarritz Summit Performance on Russia, August 23, 2019

Trump Suggests Inviting Russia to the Next G7 Summit, August 26, 2019

Julia Tops

Looking Forward to the 2019 Biarritz Summit, with Angela Min Yi Hou, July 3, 2018

First-Quarter Compliance with G7 Charlevoix's Key Commitments, September 18, 2018

What Might Come from the G7 Biarritz Summit, August 25, 2019

Heidi Ullrich

The G20 and the Digital Gender Divide: Closing the Gender Gap in ICT Skill Development, June 7, 2017

Alissa Wang

The G7 Finance Ministerial Meeting at Sendai — United and Divided, May 25, 2016

The G20 Finance Ministerial Meeting at Chengdu or , July 25, 2016

Prospects for the 2016 BRICS Goa Summit, August 30, 2016

China's Coordination of the G20 and BRICS Summits, September 4, 2016

BRICS Summit: Has a Bridge Been Built? September 5, 2016

Predicting China's G20 Compliance from Hangzhou to Davos, January 24, 2017

From Tweeting to Talking — The Trump-Xi Relationship from Florida to Hamburg, April 10, 2017

Prospects for the Xiamen Summit, August 28, 2017

The Clash of Two Summits: The G7 Charlevoix Summit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, June 9, 2018

Tracy Wang

Forging the Economy-Security Link at the Toronto G7 Foreign and Security Ministers Meeting, April 22, 2018

Brittaney Warren

Financing the Climate at COP21, December 8, 2015

Dealing with Disruptive Technology, January 20, 2016

The Costs and Benefits of Disruptive Technologies, Febuary 3, 2016

China's First G20 Sherpa Meeting and Beyond, February 11, 2016

G7 Energy Ministers Meet Ahead of Ise-Shima Summit, May 3, 2016

The Revival of the G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, May 18, 2016

Following the Money at Ise-Shima, May 26, 2016

G20 Agriculture Ministers Discuss Hunger, Poverty, Climate and Intensive Agriculture, June 7, 2016

G20 Energy Ministers Meet Again, July 6, 2016

Will the G20 Keep Its Promises to Reform the International Financial Institutions? (with John Kirton), October 6, 2016

Trump and Climate Change: From COP22 to the G7, November 18, 2016

From Trump's Inauguration to the G20 Hamburg Summit, January 25, 2017

G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meet in Baden-Baden, March 18, 2017

Trump's Executive Order: A New Energy Era, April 3, 2017

Tales Taormina Can Tell G7 Leaders, with Meredith Williams, May 25, 2017

Toward a Legally Binding Climate Agreement at UNGA, October 10, 2017

Protecting Citizen Safety in a Committed and Comprehensive Way: Challenges for the G7 Foreign and Security Ministers' in 2018, with John Kirton, April 24, 2018

G7 Finance and Development Ministers Issue Co-chairs' Summary, June 3, 2018

Canada's Leadership at the 2018 G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting in Halifax, September 21, 2018

Climate Ambition Stagnant at G20 Osaka Summit, July 29, 2019

Linking Climate with Agriculture, Biodiversity and Oceans, August 26, 2019

Governing Through Goals: The G20 and UN 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, December 6, 2019

David A. Welch

A Crossroads in Korea, February 12, 2016

The G7 and the South China Sea, May 26, 2016

On Maritime Security, G7 Leaders Pivot Toward International Law, May 27, 2016

Are G20 Summits Worth It?, July 3, 2019

Meredith Williams

Can the T20 Help the G20 Meet the Challenges of Financial Regulation?, December 2, 2016

Tales Taormina Can Tell G7 Leaders, with Brittaney Warren, May 25, 2017

Katherine Yampolsky

G7 Performance on Terrorism, 1975-2018, August 24, 2019

Marissa J. Young

A Fundamental Gap: Why China's G20 Must Address Health Security, September 4, 2016

EU Leaders Welcome the Chinese Presidency of the G20 Summit (with Denisse Rudich), September 8, 2016

Mary Zelenova

Committed to Resilience: G7 Foreign Ministers' Commitments on Counter-Terrorism in 2017, with John Kirton, April 23, 2018

Trump Suggests Inviting Russia to the Next G7 Summit, August 26, 2019

Genevieve Zingg

Security and Terrorism: Taking a Backseat at Biarritz? September 9, 2019

Ana Zotovic

Comparing Copenhagen 2009 and Paris 2015, November 30, 2015

Renewables Respond to the Climate Change Challenge, December 10, 2015

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